Daniel Waterhouse
General Partner, Balderton Capital · 1 appearance on the record.
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Daniel Waterhouse is a General Partner at Balderton Capital, serving on the boards of companies like Top10 and Workable. He previously spent five years as a partner at Wellington Partners.
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2 predictions · 4 opinions · 6 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
The record, in short
What the tape says about how Daniel argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →
answered every one of 14 assessed questions directly
This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →
How they sound: speaking style how? →
253 words/min while actually speaking · 33.6 um and uh per 1k words
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,917 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →
How the interview went all their pushback → series average →
Across 1 rated episode:
Everything Daniel Waterhouse said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Daniel Waterhouse's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 5 times in 3 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 5
Every mention by year
2016 3 mentions in 1 episode
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20 VC 091: Daniel Waterhouse @ Balderton Capital on Investing Styles, Venture Landscapes a | Nov 25, 2015 | 14m |